Healthcare workers wheel the body of deceased person to a makeshift morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the Covid-19 outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, US, April 6, 2020. — Reuters pic
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The United States recorded 39,379 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed yesterday, as infections continue to trend up around the country.The world’s largest economy also recorded a further 234 fatalities, bringing the death toll to 129,891, the Baltimore-based institution’s tracker showed at 8:30pm .
Sunday is the fourth consecutive day of surging numbers of new infections, including a high of 57,683 on Friday.The United States is the hardest-hit country in the global pandemic, both in caseload and deaths. — AFP